Finally made Instapundit!

Glenn posted an email I sent last night, I almost never email the big boys but thought it might get a response, in regards my post last night about disaster prep, Screen shot anyone?
This is big, Because the big boys don't reply to just any old question,
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My Katrina thoughts

Summarized here! READ THIS! hindsight IS 20/20
get ready
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READ IT ALL! It covers civil rights in an emergency as well

SNIP, "I had several chats with my friends about not bringing others along. One was OK with this, and apologized. The other thinks I'm a bit anal-retentive and unsympathetic. I've assured him that that's true! (Think about it)
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Ukulele!

Heard several new tunes from John F today.
Awe-haw-SOME! What a genius.
Can't wait 'till we get some of this stuff published!

I Hate Spiders!

So I'm going over to fix my daughters Fridge (of course)and when I get home I go to put on my shirt and BAM! I get bit by a big ole spider, Fucker!
I did good things, on my birthday, and still get bit by Bullshit (spiders), Whoopee!
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Weed facts

One of the most comprehensive and well documented sources I've seen
http://www.jackherer.com/index.html

SAILING!!

BEEER!

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Johnny is a good man

Johnny Rotten, who is widely considered to embody the zenith of punk music and a former singer of the British band the Sex Pistols, issued the following statement to the Independent newspaper about his planned concert in Tel Aviv:

I really resent the presumption that I'm going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews [sic]. If Elvis-f-ing-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel because he's suddenly got this compassion for Palestinians, then good on him. But I have absolutely one rule, right? Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.
Go Johnny Go!
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We Like Ray Bradbury

and so does this chick, NSFW
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Right to Bear Arms

Just checking out what I'm allowed to own in California. Looks to me like we can own guns as long they are not, at all, competitive with what the government has...

Here's the generic characteristics list for the weapons prohibition in CA

http://www.ag.ca.gov/firearms/regs/genchar2.php

Notice we can not have a weapons that can carry more than 10 rounds or accept any type of removable cartridge. So in a fire fight, we must stop down to reload after 10 shots but the gov and/or criminals can wail away at us with 30 round clip after clip.
Sorta like a pocket knife vs a claymore. What's the point?

I'll bet any money the "justification" for this is something along the lines of "citizens don't need assault weapons for self defence"...the missing factor is that we won't be defending ourselves from other law abiding citizens, we will be defending ourselves against criminals or the government. In fact, the reason the constitution guaranties us the right to bear arms is so that we may defend ourselves from our GOVERNMENT. So they are making sure that the best weapon we can have is a 7 shot, chambered, hunting rifle. Great against deer....not so good against AK47-style assault rifles and teargas.

So really, there is no "real" way to defend ourselves against the government in the state of CA.

Our constitutional rights are being trampled. You mean to tell me I must accept that some "well trained" 19 year old soldier or police officer has better judgement in the use of an assault weapon than me? No way! It's simply that the government doesn't want us to be able to exercise our right to replace them, entirely, if we choose. They work for us, not the other way around!

That's Right is DONE!
Hear it here.

It's over

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King of Snark

post removed by Me,
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Drum Bundle

Going into the drum bundle for the last time. WooHoo!

The song is ready. After I increased the overall volume to make sure the MP3s have some juice, there was one solitary Snare beat that red-lined the meter (last snare before "broke now"). Nothing else touches the red.

So I'm going back to the drum bundle for the last tiny adjustment.

Then it's mix-down!

It's possible Yrgal may make some small adjustments to some BG vocal levels after the release...but's it's the INFORMATION AGE, we can do that!

Hell Yes!

watch this!

Help!

The Russians need it bad, maybe us Cali people could help. I don't know, you tell me,
Look

sorry if this is "racist"

D\So I'm skateboarding to the store cause I'm too buzzed to drive, I'm leaving and this old Mexican dude is staring me down, I mean Hard Core, so I say what the Fuck? he says Why you here? realize I'm already mad and tired from riding, so I say what the Fuck do you care? he says come on back, and I do, What's you4r problem old man? fuck you and your sick Country, he says come on, I say, O,.K. me my deck, my beer, my knife, let's go, he left,Quick. I don't go for confrontation, not my style, but I'm sick of these fuckers acting like it's the wild West, and if it is I'm Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday all Wrapped into one, FUCK THESE People,
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See?

This is funny cause it's true

Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor.
Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government then gives you some milk.
Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government; then the government sells you some milk.
New Dealism: if you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain.
Nazism: If you have two cows, the government shoots you and keeps the cows.
Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.

In recent years and days, the joke has taken a literal and unfunny turn here in the U.S. The latest addition to the joke is something like this:

Nanny Stateism: If you have two cows, we’re going to show up at your house at dawn with a cease-and-desist letter and forbid you to do anything useful with their milk until you comply with General Laws Chapter 94, Sections 13 and 16 through 16K, Chapter 94A, and the regulations found in 330 CMR 27.00 et seq.

See? Not funny.

this is cool, maybe

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: My brother sent me an MP3 file of a cut from his next album and wrote: “Here’s the first recording in the new studio space. The ‘phone mic’ is the handset from an old Bell dial-phone that has been modified to take an XLR plug. Totally nails the “telephone tone” — if you can imagine such a thing. The guy who makes them even offers some where you plug into the base, so you can keep the whole phone as a mic.” I love that.

from Instapundit
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Tom Tom Flams Gooooood....

I like it, it's what Q described, I think he and Yrgal will like it....

more fun with spam

wow, the background of the text I tried to paste was full of tags and spam, I didn't see it until I tried to post it, Google Good, (never thought I would say that),
Never mind,
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WTF?

O.K. here at Blister we don't do Apple, we are PC guys, that aside, I read that the FTC has filed a lawsuit against Apple saying that they must use Flash in their OSs. Right now they use open source
HTML5 and CSS3, which is truly the next wave of web development, and being open source, is Free, that's why I can blog as easy as I or anyone else can do.Flash is proprietary and web devs must purchase a license to use Flash in their SDKs. I love Flash, so does Youtube for example, but if Mr. Jobs company wants to use another platform, why The Hell does the GOV have any business deciding What tools a company uses in their product? what harm is there in Steve using something else that people want? Hell they own about 10
% of market share, so it's not like a monopoly or something, FUCK the GOV!
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P.S. no government agents were harmed in the writing of this post,
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Fear of heights?

How about a glass- bottomed Hot air balloon gondola?

Triggers!

One more

by way of addition, we drink Beer and partake of the Herb, but we raise or have raised our children to be good people, can't do that if your Not there!,
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Bill Weldon Loses!

We found Ty Easton Today, and that's a good thing, We talked for a bit and he is doing well, kids are fine etc. The biggest bummer is Billy, he fell off the wagon, left his kids and is now shacking up with some "person" in N.M. USA.A prolific and gifted Writer, Bill was an integral part of all of our works in the past and could have been now if he wasn't such a piece of.... work. Sadly, he chose Drugs over his responsibilities and while not being dead to us,he has so much to make up for and so little time (his boys are growing up!)We have given up on any rehab for him, SAD,sad.....
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Reggae is amazing

Bob Marley was Rastafari, an offshoot of Christianity,I'm a Nazerene Protestant,Christafari is a Christian group. Matisyahu is a Hasidic Jew, and Stu is Agnostic/Daoist, Go figure, We All play the Rasta, IRIE ITES,
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No Politics Today!

Which is a good thing for certain people in my circle, Just Root Reggae on Pandora, some Beer and PGA Golfing on Stonervision, not to mention finding old musician friends on Myspace (Hello Ty!).I'm about ready to work on my new old school country thing I am calling "One Bullet" which may take some time to work out the kinks(great band BTW), YRGGGG!
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That's Right Release

We're shootin' for the 14th (official release the 15th)

FacebUk

Someone remind me...

What, exactly, is so bad about marijuana that mothers, or anyone, should be imprissoned over it? Really, what's the problem again?....

I forgot, how many people does pot kill each year?

What exactly are the statistics on traffic accidents involving only pot as the intoxicant?

What, exactly, are the health problems it creates?.

Explain, again, how pot smokers are bad for society?

Answers:
There isn't one.
Zero.
There is no measurable impact.
Zero.
They're not.

Meaty Democrat

...band/song/album name...

Greg Gutfeld speaks

Investment Opportunity: My Ground Zero Islamic Gay Bar


Investment Opportunity: My Ground Zero Islamic Gay Bar

He is serious,
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Yrgal is right.

We need a Les Paul.

...the guitar, not the guy. He's kinda old (is he alive still?), don't think he'd wanna come down and hang at Blister...

We got some cool equipment but, yea, we need a Les Paul....and a Marshall 1/2 Stack!!

Download Free Music

As always, download free music MP3s from Blister Records Recording Group.

BooYaa!

Finally got the "AHHs" in the background vocals RIGHT!

The orignal mix had a certain magic to it. But it also had some messy spots. I couldn't clean up the messy spots so we re-recorded....Well, they were clean but the magic was gone!

I have been messing with them for weeks trying to re-capture the right sound....

Well due to my particular brand of coolness and the fact that I archived EVERYTHING, I was finally able to achieve clean AND magic!

YARG!

Discuss...

stuff

Fun with spam

I have seen people do this, now it's my turn, check out this bit of spam, note the amounts, spelling and mostly, the actual address, hk= Hong Kong,

Wow never mind, the fucking paste had bad shit in it that blogger spotted as spam,
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It is my pleasure to write and inform you of a transaction involving the transfer of Eighteen Million Six Hundred United State dollars ($18,600,000.00) only into a foreign account for safe-keeping pending my arrival with my colleagues for the sharing with you as the account owner into which the money is remitted.

that's a good bit that should be safe, and funny,
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Fun with electricians

I'm an HVAC mechanic, and because of that I typically have a great deal of respect for their trade, however, today I met a good electrician who was clueless. I moved many things in my garage to help him out and make his job easier, as well as keep my toys safe. What did I get in return? He smacked his conduit into my favorite plane, and if I wasn't quick it would have been destroyed, thankfully it was saved. he finished but of course didn't check his work, but I did. The new circuit worked 2 times then failed, so I ride my skateboard down the street where he was on his next job. He was very nice and said he would be over within the hour. THREE hours later he shows up and can't figure out what went wrong, I (remember I'm an A/C guy) told him that he didn't need to run a garage door opener on a ground fault circuit, he bypassed it and now all is well. He then told me that he has calls from ALL his work today and needs to return to fix it and thanks for helping him solve the problem.
He is an Electrician, I am an A/C guy and I fixed his problem, Fucking hilarious,
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Middle Earth

Another young man has begun the exploration....

Started reading The Hobbit to Hayden. He's a bit too young to read it himself but he follows the story well....good times!

Sad people

They don't have clue as to how to swing a hammer, change their oil, use a tape measure, I'm not sure if the commercials I see are real(they aren't) but the way people are presented it's like they don't have a clue, and in my experience, they don't, Sad Americans, not that the rest of the world is any better,
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Cakewalk Rules!

Yrgal paid me a great compliment...

He said "I dare anyone to create electronic drums as well as you can, they can’t for sure"

Thx buddy!

Anyway..It made me think. They're good because there is almost no limit to what I can create using Blister's 10 year old software, Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. I only use 5% of what this software can do and I am able to do everything a "real-world" mixer can do and lots of stuff that is completely impossible to do using hardware. You can work on sound on any level. From an entire song, with it's multitude of parts and nuances, right down to a single sample, 1/44100 of a second, with full digital capability (and ALL that that implies). Add another great program, Soundforge, as a plug-in, and it's almost like we have no excuse for not winning a Grammy.

Besides Bob and I, Cakewalk is the biggest part of our operation. It's amazing! Someday we will buy a current copy just so we can toss them some $ like they deserve.

New E- cig!

My new E-cig kit came today, Yippee! It's the Joye 510 model, Black cylinder with Blue led tip. What I like about it is it Doesn't look like a cigarette, and I have 4 atomizers, which is the part that burns out most frequently. My last kits were 4081 style and they looked just like a cigarette, at first I thought that was cool but now...... not so much. The 4 atomizers I had lasted me about a year which is also very cool.

Total cost for a year, including my newest buy=300$
Cost of cigarettes if I didn't vape= 3500$, You do the math,
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Christopher Hitchens is an Aetheist,

And I'm a Christian, still, he is a fantastic writer,lecturer and such, I read everything he writes and you should too. That being said, here's an article he wrote on his Cancer and what it is doing to him, Read it all,
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Celtic Bastards

Ooda Yaw finally made it over to lay down his little piece. The fur-clad woodsman he calls his band were with him, as I had hoped... But, phew...I forgot, they can party! They're still here....

Good day

Hooked up with my ENTIRE highschool rockband on FB today. Was a cool day!

This is Real!

meet Basil Marceux, Running for Tennessee Governor, Yes he is real!,
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Haven't gone through them all yet,...

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Parking Failures

Examples can be found here

Ooda never made it

We'll try again tomorrow.

Buster Apocalypse stopped by, however, and we recorded some cymbals.....and he polished off my buds....

Recording Tip # 1443

Always make sure your mics are far enough from the cymbals to be clear of impact in any eventuality.

The release of That's Right

...has been moved up to August 14th.

Howling Woodsmen

Ooda is stopping by tonight to lay down a little missing piece in the end of That's Right....

I hope the Celtic Bastards are with him. Those guys are a blast!

Bye Bye Boomhauer Betas

We're on to That's Right Beta 8.

Cleaning up the junk and the extraneous funnies.

Tieing up loose ends and experimenting with some final rooms.

I don't expect a Beta 10....

YARG!

Big Love Tomato Kicks Ass!

All bias aside, we do.